2019 – Short Films Section

The Village

2018 / 5 mins / United Kingdom / Documentary / Rose Palmer, Laura Balfour

Three refugees describe their experiences of gaining freedom in The Village, a safe haven in the picturesque town of Darmstadt, Germany. The town houses the most traumatized refugees arriving in the country and offers them mental health support to overcome their experiences and take the first steps of their new lives in Germany.

 

With or without papers

2018 / 20 mins / United States / Documentary / Aria Zapata

Labor rights activist Luis Magaña makes daily tours through the agricultural fields of the San Joaquin Valley generating hope. Through their eyes and the stories of migrant workers, the reality of the migrant workforce comes to light.

 

3 grams of faith

2017 / 14 mins / Spain / Fiction / José A. Campos

María, a retired woman, is tormented by a nightmare in her daily routine. Between a rock and a hard place he makes an unusual decision.

 

8th Continent

2018 / 11 mins / Greece / Documentary / Yorgos Zois

On the island of Lesvos, an old abandoned landfill sits on a mountain with two large craters. The craters are overflowing with thousands of life jackets from the waves of refugees. A worker is the only inhabitant of this strange place that resembles a strange planet or a new continent.

 

Testimonies of a Massacre: Tula Toli

2017 / 21 mins / United Kingdom / Documentary / Shafiur Rahman

Filming in the border areas between Myanmar and Bangladesh and also in the Rohingya refugee camps, Shafiur Rahman encountered survivors of what is probably the worst massacre of the 2017 Rakhine crisis: Tula Toli. This film is the first documentary to examine crucial evidence of the Myanmar government's pre-planning of the massacre.

 

Wicked Girls

2017 / 8 mins / France – Türkiye / Animation / Ayce Kartal

S., 8 years old, is a little Turkish girl with an overflowing imagination, interested in nature and animals. While in the hospital, he begins to remember a happy vacation in his grandparents' village. But suddenly dark and terrifying memories arise that, little by little, begin to make sense.

 

Gold Rush

2017 / 25 mins / Spain / Documentary / Raúl de la Fuente

In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the poverty of the population and the wealth of the subsoil continue to be irreconcilable, taking the lives of hundreds of miners. Did you know that your health also depends on your work?

 

2nd Class

2018 / 14 mins / Sweden / Fiction / Jimmy Olsson

Charlotte has a new job as a second grade teacher. One night she is attacked by a Nazi and is seriously injured. When he returns to his students, he discovers that one of his students is the son of that Nazi.

 

 

Rights and humans

2018 / 23 mins / Argentina / Documentary / Ignacio Ibarra

What happened to photojournalists during the Argentine military dictatorship, which began in 1976? Freedom of expression was conspicuous by its absence, and one of the tools that photographers had to avoid censorship and self-censorship of the media was "ironic photography."

 

Neetu

2018 / 6 mins / Documentary / Spain / Carlos Caro

Neetu is an example of how to overcome any obstacle in life.

 

3 stolen cameras / 3 stolen cameras

2017 / 17 mins / Documentary / Western Sahara / Ahmed Ettanji

Members of the Western Sahara Media Team fight to keep their cameras. This is a story about breaking censorship with unique images from an area where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement an almost total media blockade.